An EgyptAir passenger jet carrying 66 passengers and crew has vanished en route to Cairo. Live EgyptAir flight MS804 disappears from radar between Paris and Cairo – live updates Airline says plane, which took off from France’s Charles de Gaulle airport late on Wednesday night, has gone missing with 66 people on board Read more The flight departed from Paris on Wednesday evening and lost contact with ground crews at 2.30am local time, about 16km (10 miles) inside Egyptian airspace. The 12-year-old Airbus A320-232 was about 40 minutes from its destination. It was the aircraft’s fifth flight of the day, including journeys to the Eritrean capital, Asmara, and Carthage in Tunisia.